Armed & Feminine

My friend responded, "That's funny. I thought that religious women don't have the right to bare arms."

For a second I stared at her, mentally running through all the Jewish laws that I could think of which might prohibit women from using guns... Until I realized she was talking about the Jewish laws of modesty, (which I talk about here.)

Boy, was I relieved.

In the latest issue of "America's 1st Freedom" magazine (published by the NRA), there's an article that cites the growing numbers of women interested in guns. "Of our 54% growth rate in 2007, 66% of that represented people new to shooting. And 40% of the 54% were women," says a shooting range owner in the article.

Apparently women want to be able to defend themselves. I know that's why I'm an NRA member.

I can admit that here on this anonymous blog, where only a VERY few of my viewers know who I really am. I wasn't completely kidding when I cued the shadchanim running away screaming. It's dangerous to be a feminist who likes guns in frum society. I told my mom today, after reading the article about women and guns, that we could eliminate (from the shiddichim business, not literally,) great numbers of guys if we told shadchanim that I'm a member of the NRA.

She was not amused.

I have to keep my gun enthusiasm quiet if I want to be accepted in frum society. So if you're out there reading this and you know who I am, keep quiet about it, will ya?

start from the pasuk lo tilbash k'li gever, which most mforshim explain as weaponry. I'm not familiar with poskim, but later poskim i think discuss leniencies for women in dangerous situations, as well as for weapons that aren't literally worn.

Diaspora Jews should own guns and be competent in their use. After all, every 400 years or so our host countries seem to get ... well, impatient with us. Yet non-frum American and Canadian Jews, by their left-leaning (left-leading?) politics harm the very right to own guns, let alone defend oneself with them. And guns just don't seem to be on frum Jews' radar screens.

Yael did not kill [General Sisera] with a weapon, but with a peg [of a tent], wit the strength of her hand. Why did she not use weapon? To comply with Devarim / Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verse 5: THE GARMENT OF A MAN MAY NOT BE WORN BY A WOMAN.

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HaEmek Davar commentary on Vayikra / Leviticus, chapter 17, verse 13:

It is not the way of women to use weapons.נשים לאו בנות צידה הן שאין דרכן בכלי זיין

CHRONOLOGY: Written by Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv, the Rosh HaYeshivah of Volozhin, who lived from 1816 to 1893 of the Common Era.

Yael did not kill [General Sisera] with a weapon, but with a peg [of a tent], wit the strength of her hand. Why did she not use weapon? To comply with Devarim / Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verse 5: THE GARMENT OF A MAN MAY NOT BE WORN BY A WOMAN.

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HaEmek Davar commentary on Vayikra / Leviticus, chapter 17, verse 13:

It is not the way of women to use weapons.ונשים לאו בנות צידה הן שאין דרכן בכלי זיין

CHRONOLOGY: Written by Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv, the Rosh HaYeshivah of Volozhin, who lived from 1816 to 1893 of the Common Era.

Yael did not kill [General Sisera] with a weapon, but with a peg [of a tent], wit the strength of her hand. Why did she not use weapon? To comply with Devarim / Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verse 5: THE GARMENT OF A MAN MAY NOT BE WORN BY A WOMAN.

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HaEmek Davar commentary on Vayikra / Leviticus, chapter 17, verse 13:

It is not the way of women to use weapons.

CHRONOLOGY: Written by Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv, the Rosh HaYeshivah of Volozhin, who lived from 1816 to 1893 of the Common Era.